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 Billed
as the next Lata Mangeshkar, Anuradha Paudwal
was discovered by S D Burman who gave her a
break in the film Abhimaan. For decades now
she has been entertaining the listeners with
her mellifluous
voice.
Anuradha
Paudwal was a student of Xavier's college who
participated in the college's cultural programmes,
but she did not have a background of film music.
In 1976 Anuradha got her big break for the film
Kailcharan starring Shatrugan Sinha and Reena Roy.
This Subhash Ghai film had music by Rajesh Roshan.
Her first solo number was for the film Aap Beeti
starring Hema Malini and Shashi Kapoor and music by
Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Anuradha Paudwal got some good
numbers from the duo who were churning out hits
one after the other. She also sang intermittently
for other music directors such as Rajesh Roshan
(Des Pardes), Jaidev (Dooriyan, Laila Majnu),
Kalyanji-Anandji (Kalaakar, Vidhataa) and Usha
Khanna (Souten, Sajan Bina Suhagan).
Anuradha Paudwal became a
singer to reckon with when she rendered some
exceptional numbers for the film Hero, music by
Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Her song for Mere Mann Bajaa
Mirang Utsav won her the first Filmfare award in
1985.
However
it was only after she joined hands with Gulshan
Kumar and T Series that Paudwal emerged as a
foremost playback singer in Bollywood. She
conquered new horizons with hits from films like Lal
Dupatta Malmal Ka, Tezaab, Ashiqui,
Meera Ka Mohan, Dil
Hai Ke Manta Nahin , Ram
Lakhan among others.
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